I'm having a major problem with Mental Ray right now. I'm working on my final university project, and have made a 3d character. Originally made up of 5 separate objects with separate UV maps, then combined into one.

Each frame individually is rendered absolutely fine in Maya when I click the render button.

So the only diff between your in Maya render and your batch render is the image plane I guess. Does it render properly in Maya without the image plane?

I'm not a big fan of Maya's IBL. Not sure if they got it fixed in Maya 8, but it causes all sorts of problems in Maya 7 and is almost useless with render layers. I could easily see it being the cause of your problems but I have no idea why. Try removing it and seeing if your renders start looking the same in Maya and with the batch renderer.

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